Flusser: "We impose dead letters upon the living body of language, so that like vampires, they may suck the life that pulsates in language and come to live a new type of life"

Vilem Flusser:  "We transcodify letters from images into instruments in order to dominate language, and through it, our own mind.  We impose dead letters upon the living body of language, so that like vampires, they may suck the life that pulsates in language and come to live a new type of life" (Into Immaterial Culture 14).